vBlog: Bringing up children with ADHD
My 6 year old son has very recently been diagnosed with ADHD and has been on a waiting list for an ADOS test to also determine whether he has an autistic spectrum disorder since March. Despite him being permanently excluded from his nursery aged 4, and getting two exclusions from primary school, it has taken us years of battling with the medical profession before we were able to get a referral for diagnostic tests. The only support we have been offered is medication – we have asked and asked if other support is available first but apart from the specialist ADHD nurse coming into school to talk to us and his teachers there is nothing available. We were told – if your son had diabetes you would not hesitate to give him insulin, so why are you resisting Ritalin for ADHD? We strongly believe that we should be given additional support both as parents but also for his school to help them cope with his incredibly disruptive behaviour. But nothing is available.
